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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is making me so sad. I've never regretted having my dog for a second.

Sure, having him requires planning our schedules a little differently - and no one likes being woken up at 3 in the morning when the dog isn't feeling well and needs to go out.

But our dog, who we adopted when he was about 2, brings so much joy, and fun, and love, and goofiness to our lives. I love our lives with him.[/quote]

Seriously, are you expressing sanctimony because posters are *feeling* regret about their dog?  They are not saying the dog is not abused, or loved.

One of the basic lessons in parenting classes is that you can't control your feelings but you can control your behavior.  PPs here are doing exactly that.  Don't make them feel bad for expressing their feelings about a dog in an anonymous forum.  
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PP is entitled to her feelings, too.  If she is disgusted by posts, she's allowed to express that.  Why are you guilt-tripping her about her feelings of disgust for people who regret their dogs?  See how that works.

And yeah, some of the posts here are upsetting.  Dogs poop and pee and even well-trained dogs have accidents and they get old (just like humans!) and have health issues, but yeah, it's sad when someone expresses regret because of, essentially, inconvenience.

I am more sympathetic toward the PPs who have pets with expensive medical conditions.  That's difficult, especially if you don't make much.

But the people who are annoyed because they have to plan to be home to let the dog out to pee seem a little over the top.  Or the people who seem to have just lost interest, as if they didn't anticipate that a dog is a 15-year committment, so their kids are going to get older, et cetera, and they're still going to have to take care of the dog.

In some ways, a dog is a different commitment than a child. A child eventually can go pee and poop on his own, eventually goes to school.  So, yeah, the parenting becomes more challenging because of the emotional/moral/academic stuff, but the cleaning up pee and poop part stops.  Getting a dog is in part like planning on having a toddler for 15 years.  Dogs are smart and mature, but unless you have an electronic dog door or some other system, they will always rely on you for their potty situation.

Perhaps people need to be reminded of that when they adopt.[/quote]

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